Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pride of lions hunting down a prey animal , such as a zebra , is one of nature 's more awesome spectacles . |
| 2 | And of course holding together a part like Juliet with long gaps between the performance nights and no real rehearsal in between is difficult to do — that can be rather hairy . |
| 3 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 4 | A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past . |
| 5 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 6 | Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage . |
| 7 | The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 8 | If the investigation is a sustained piece of work extending over a period of weeks , a diary work file or log book of activities should be maintained . |
| 9 | And it 's significant that a strand of films showing how a group of individuals from different social backgrounds could be brought together by war and learn to forget their divisions , generally regarded as the supreme achievement of wartime ‘ realism ’ , was anticipated in Powell-Pressburger's One of our Aircraft is Missing ( 1941 ) , in which a bomber crew bales out over Holland and works its way home with help from the Dutch resistance . |
| 10 | To my way of thinking , penguins are superb examples of evolution fitting out a bird to make the best use of its environment — the only potential problem being man . |
| 11 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 12 | The statisticians and historians will have to cut through all this and the added confusion of teams moving up a division without being promoted . |
| 13 | The fact is , I work in the National Health Service , and regardless of what the media or politicians may say , the reforms are costing millions of pounds setting up a system which is not working . |
| 14 | Imagine a cup of water falling off a table and breaking into pieces on the floor . |
| 15 | According to the Partnership Act 1890 a partnership is an association of persons carrying on a business in common with a view to profit . |
| 16 | Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent . |
| 17 | We need a variety of materials in a wide range of formats utilizing therefore a number of different types of equipment ; because it will never make sense to have maximum collections in every classroom , we are likely to value a central pool from which everyone can draw , and the ability to inspect , copy and borrow materials from other schools and central LEA collections . |
| 18 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee regarded this bending of the law as unsatisfactory , and tentatively proposed a new offence of mercy killing where a person , out of compassion , unlawfully kills another who is , or is believed by him to be , permanently helpless or in great pain . |
| 19 | The handle consists of bronze sheathing over a lead core . |
| 20 | A load of schoolchildren going on a day out . |
| 21 | Cricket : Benson and Hedges Tournament : ‘ We get a number of inquiries asking when a contract comes to an end . |